Stochastik & Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

Unsaturated Soils: Numerical and Theoretical Approaches

These proceedings document the various papers delivered and partially presented at the International Conference “From experimental evidence towards numerical modeling of unsaturated soils,” wh...

Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004

<P>ECMI has a brand name in Industrial Mathematics and organises successful biannual conferences. This time, the conference on Industrial Mathematics held in Eindhoven in June 2004 Mathemati...

Interacting Particle Systems

Thomas M. Liggett

<P>From the reviews "This book presents a complete treatment of a new class of random processes, which have been studied intensively during the last fifteen years. None of this material ...

Statistics for the Utterly Confused, 2nd edition

Lloyd R. Jaisingh

Latent Curve Models

Patrick J. Curran / Kenneth A. Bollen

An effective technique for data analysis in the social sciences <p>The recent explosion in longitudinal data in the social sciences highlights the need for this timely publication. Latent C...

Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications

<P>Advanced numerical simulations that use adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods have now become routine in engineering and science. Originally developed for computational fluid dynamics ap...

Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95

Joseph L. Schafer / David R. Lemmon

<P>Many books teach computational statistics. Until now, however, none has shown how to write a good program. This book gives statisticians, biostatisticians and methodologically-oriented re...

Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length

C.S. Wallace

Mythanksareduetothemanypeoplewhohaveassistedintheworkreported here and in the preparation of this book. The work is incomplete and this account of it rougher than it might be. Such virtues as it h...

Die Politik der großen Zahlen

Alain Desrosières

<P>Statistik ("Staatenkunde"), Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und die Philosophie der Wahrscheinlichkeit sind auch als "siamesische Drillinge" bekannt. Das Buch analysiert den W...

Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media

<P>This book addresses the characterization of flow and transport in porous fractured media from experimental and modeling perspectives. It provides a comprehensive presentation of investiga...

Environmental Statistics

Vic Barnett

In modern society, we are ever more aware of the environmentalissues we face, whether these relate to global warming, depletionof rivers and oceans, despoliation of forests, pollution of land,poor...

Bayesian Models for Categorical Data

Peter Congdon

The use of Bayesian methods for the analysis of data has grown substantially in areas as diverse as applied statistics, psychology, economics and medical science. Bayesian Methods for Categorical ...

Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment

Human health risk assessment involves the measuring of risk of exposure to disease, with a view to improving disease prevention. Mathematical, biological, statistical, and computational methods pl...

Tutorials in Biostatistics, Tutorials in Biostatistics

The <i>Tutorials in Biostatistics</i> have become a very popular feature of the prestigious Wiley journal, <i>Statistics in Medicine</i> (SIM). The introductory style and p...

The Engineer and the Scandal

Reint de Boer

<P>Offers an eye-opening and revealing look into an interpersonal/scientific conflict involving the ‘Father of Modern Soil Mechanics’ Karl von Terzaghi.</P><P></P><P...

The Generic Chaining

Michel Talagrand

<P>The fundamental question of characterizing continuity and boundedness of Gaussian processes goes back to Kolmogorov. After contributions by R. Dudley and X. Fernique, it was solved by the...

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Munich 2004

Leading-edge research groups in the field of scientific computing present their outstanding projects using the High Performance Computer in Bavaria (HLRB), Hitachi SR8000-F1, one of the top-level ...

Creep Mechanics

Josef Betten

<p>Provides a short survey of recent advances in the mathematical modelling of the mechanical behavior of anisotropic solids under creep conditions, including principles, methods, and applic...

Free-Convective Heat Transfer

Oleg G. Martynenko / Pavel P. Khramtsov

<P><STRONG>Free Convective Heat Transfer</STRONG> is a thorough survey of various kinds of free-convective flows and heat transfer. Reference data are accompanied by a large numb...

Analysis and Numerics for Conservation Laws

Whatdoasupernovaexplosioninouterspace,?owaroundanairfoil and knocking in combustion engines have in common? The physical and chemical mechanisms as well as the sizes of these processes are quite d...